If you live in New England you are likely aware that employees of the Stop & Shop Supermarket chain are on strike. I haven’t spent any time looking into the specific issues that caused the failure of contract negotiations between the company and the union. It’s not really my fight. The stores, at least the ones in my town, remain open with managers, corporate staff and some non-union employees doing their best. The deli, the fish counter and the bakery…
Defenders or Representative Ilhan Omar are claiming that anyone who is being critical of her comments about 9/11 is putting her life in jeopardy. That’s a load of crap that they are dumping in the hopes of silencing critics because they have no way to answer critics. And if Omar can’t take the heat of criticism, she should resign. When you say something as awful and ignorant as describing 9/11 as “some people did something” you have to be prepared…
Socialist Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has insisted that we have a mere 12 years to solve the Global Climate Warming Change Crisis. To that end, she proposed the Green New Deal. Sweeping legislation that would mandate the retrofitting of EVERY building in the country, eliminating gasoline and mandating electric cars for all, converting the entire electrical grid of the nation to carbon-free energy (excluding nuclear of course.) If we let the government o all fo that to us, as well…
I stumbled across a news story that highlights why I have never been particularly concerned about Global Climate Warming Change. Actually I never really worried about the actual climate because it’s all just a theory based on computer models that have never been right about anything. What has been mildly worrying is how politicians use the climate theories as an excuse to violate individual rights and accumulate more power. Here’s the answer to Representative AOC’s Green New Deal. A privately…
Due to the high-profile nature of the case, or the spotlight the internet can shine on everything, the Chicago Way handling of the Jussie Smollett case may not succeed. The manner in which the States Attorney for Cook County dismissed all 16 felonies Smollett was charged with for faking a “hate crime” has come under intense scrutiny. Before you counter that this scrutiny is motivated by partisan politics, racism or homophobia, consider this letter written by the Illinois Prosecutor’s Bar…
As promised the Senate held a vote on the Democratic resolution for a Green New Deal. As expected the Democrats objected to having a vote on their own proposal. Seems rather silly to propose a resolution that you don’t want to ever come up for a vote. It makes it seem like you’re not all that serious about the issue and it’s all just posturing and show. The danger in doing that is people may start to think that have…
Dick’s Sporting Goods is trying to send the appropriate virtue signals to the left on guns, but are really just demonstrating typical leftist hypocrisy. After taking a 3.1% hit in sales for dropping “assault weapons” (i.e. scary looking semi-automatic rifles) they ran a market test in which they removed all firearms from 10 stores. The test went well enough that they are going to expand the number of gun free zones to 125 stores. Because guns are bad. There is…
Columnist Mona Charen has an interesting piece up on Patriot Post highlighting how the Green New Deal has damaged the cause of Climate Change Activism by showing it for what it really is. The caricature of environmentalists is that they are just using climate change as a stalking horse for their true agenda, which is to socialize the entire economy. And lo and behold, what does the Green New Deal resolution call for? Net zero carbon emissions in 10 years,…
In addition to struggling to put some distance between her presidential aspirations and her past of lying about her ethnic heritage Elizabeth Warren is working hard to create some space between her campaign and the Democratic Socialism that is taking over the Democrat Party. Durring an interview with CNN at SXSW Warren had this exchange: “Bernie has to speak to what Democratic Socialism is,” replied Warren, who represents Massachusetts in the Senate. “And you are not one?” Giridharadas asked.” I…
Has the quest for victimhood finally reached Peak Stupidity? I thought we were there or at least close when we learned of actor Jussie Smollett writing a personal check to the two guys he hired to stage a fake assault he could portray as a “hate crime.” But then I came across this story. Darnell Byrd McPherson, Mayor of Lamar, South Carolina, reported to police that someone had vandalized both her and her husband’s cars by spraying them with an…
For most of my early adult life one thing that I always had to have was a watch. Leaving home without it felt as off as (I imagine) leaving home without pants. But I was never a watch aficionado. I did not have a collection of expensive watches. Most of time I owned one watch and I wore it every day. There were periods when I had been given a nicer looking watch that I reserved for wearing on special…
And the Democrats feel fine. Climate change is an existential threat greater than we faced in WWII. So why did Democrats skip their own hearing on saving the world?